Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust

This is the presentation Jacqui takes to schools, about the Monarch butterfly both here and overseas.

Media update on the Monarch sighting survey, 7 August 2005

This Monarch larva had unusual banding. It is the third one I’ve had like this!

Member Alex D Simpson, from Northland, wrote to tell us his experiences with pumpkin as an alternative food source. He has been “farming” 150 butterflies each season for some years, and this is what he did when he ran out of Swan Plant.

How to care for a sick butterfly..

One of the letters I have received asked how the Monarch arrived in NZ. I quote from a paper presented by Drs Lisa Berndt and Stephen Pawson, who work in the area of forest research based in Canterbury.
They tell us that while it is native to Central and Upper South America, during the 1800s the […]